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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Redis vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

redis.com
redis.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

ActiveViam

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2009

2017

2009

2006

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0

7.2.4, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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